Ducey's action makes Arizona one of 14 states that have restricted girls' sports to actual females in recent years and the third to enact legislation protecting minors from dangerous, experimental transgender procedures.

"Today I signed S.B. 1138 and S.B. 1165, legislation to protect participation and fairness for female athletes, and to ensure that individuals undergoing irreversible gender reassignment surgery are of adult age," Ducey said in a letter on Wednesday. He described the measures as "common sense."

SB 1138 bans irreversible "sex change" procedures, including genital mutilation surgeries, hysterectomies, and mastectomies, for children under 18. It doesn't apply in cases of a "medically verifiable disorder of sex development." A previous version would have also restricted hormone drugs, but a lone Republican, state Sen. Tyler Pace, blocked it last month.

Transgender surgeries are conducted on underage children across the United States, though LGBT activists often claim otherwise. In a 2018 study in JAMA Pediatrics about mastectomies or "chest reconstruction" for young, gender-confused females, 33 of 68 girls who got the surgeries said they did so before turning 18. Two girls were just 13 when they had the surgeries... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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